4 outlets·4 reports
Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI
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Amazon has been purchasing large quantities of rare books, scanning them for use in artificial-intelligence training and then destroying the volumes. A shipment of such books was tracked to the company’s Las Vegas facility, where the items were confirmed to have been trashed after digitisation.
Written from all 4 reports below, not from any single one.
How it was reported
- Hacker News·We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
- TechMeme·Investigation: Amazon is buying huge quantities of rare books, scanning them for AI, and destroying them; a tracked Biblio order went to its Las Vegas facility (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
- TechCrunch·Amazon, once an online bookseller, is destroying rare books to train AI models
- Ars Technica·Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI
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